eternal life. well, that's it for now. this is mike huckabee from new york. until next week, good night, god bless and stay buzz with howard kurtz, that's next. >> on the buzz beater this sunday, american akers parachuting to ukraine as news organizations scramble to cover the russian invasion of crimea under difficult conditions. but are journalists giving us a clear picture of the crisis or are the pun didn'ts focusing on president obama? and why was the mainstream media so dismissive when mitt romney called russia president obama's -- foe. and bob costas says a media culture unfairly targeted him. >> i don't respect the heat over light voices which can be found

in some corners of fox news and can be found on the radio, as well. nbz sports is not an extension of msnbc, no matter what anyone may think about msnbc. >> but is the msnbc commentator imposing his personal views on sports? i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. there were reports in the last 36 hours that some journalists in crimea have been beaten. the ap had some equipment confis indicatesed and a cnn correspondent told she would be kicked out of her hotel if she didn't stop broadcasting. given these difficulties and the diplomatic fol fog surrounding the situation in ukraine, our news organization is helping us you cut through that fog. >> what's happened here are the russian troops have come in. they've in essence taken the place over and told the

ukrainians to sur renders their weapons. >> i saw soldiers for the first time in my life and i was scared. >> we put that to russian soldiers outside the ukrainian base. >> are you allowing the ukrainian army to go back and forth freely? >> they told us to stop asking questions and go away. >> that's a journalist you referred to, that journalist witnessed this paramilitary masked armed men basically taking away tv equipment. he took a couple of photos. one of them came up with them forcing him to the ground, put ago gun to his head, took his camera, took his film. >> lauren ashburn joining us now, john aravosis asand julia miller, a fox news contributor. it's difficult to cover an occupation. how much are we learning from the journalists in crimea? >> well, in the very beginning, we knew exactly what was happening. president obama was standing by

while vladimir putin trampled the lives of innocent people. two days later, we finally got journalists who parachuted n into crimea. and i think we got the pictures that solidified what we already knew. >> julie, you were there last fall. what happened at that time in your journalistic efforts? >> no one was interested in publishing an article about the coming crisis between ukraine and russia over whether or not the ukraine would become part of the west that was linked by trade and by association with the european union -- >> why do you think that was? >> fox news wound.publishing. i think it auto because we're all busy people. this was not the story of the day. this was a coming crisis rather than one that was upon us. the press only mobilized when it's clear that you're in the middle of a full-court press. >> it's interesting to listen to some pundits who a couple of

weeks ago couldn't find crimea on a map. but for the correspondents there, it's not the same as being embedded with u.s. troops and perhaps there's less interest back home. >> well, i think now there's growing interest, of course. but as judy said, typically you don't have a lot of interest in the u.s. in foreign policy unless it's a crisis. that's just a fact of being american. our country has been more isolated, surprisingly, not foreign policywise, but domestical domestically. we don't focus on international news economist style the way maybe foreign press does. it wasn't an issue until it was a crisis. >> but i also think the fact that president obama decided now to cut the budget of our federal military spending, got americans interested in this topic. >> i don't think so. i think oechtly that's been a republican argument. not from you, but i'm saying we've had budget cuts during the bush years. you go to the defense department

website, you still see them bragging in dick cheney's bio. check it out. i think the bigger issue is i'm not sure whether american res focusing on this crisis yet to be honest. >> the media are. let's take a look at a couple of examples. >> when obama says and kerry did in kiev that this is a sign of weakness in that strength, you've got to wonder what cosmos our president are living in. >> there is this central awkwardness about the united states government trying to lead a response of international outrage to that kind of violation when we're a couple years out now from o decades of war in iraq. which is a war that was, of course, also launched on a trumped up false pretext. >> what do you make of media turning this into who lost crimea and is president obama to blame? >> we always like the blame game here in washington, but in this

case, i think it's justified. and i think even "the washington post" editorial board said so. they said his foreign policy was fantasy and the reason behind that is that he's been played by putin over the chemical weapons in syria, over the amnesty of the ability of russia to keep edward snowden. president obama is operating in the reality that he wants to operate in and not the reality of what the world is today. >> and this is a liberal newspaper, although more hawk bish on foreign policy than some. is it a fair way the way president obama's record on this should be scrutinized, but does this sort of it's had it his fault, it's not his fault, factor outside of america's control? >> it really doesn't. part of the problems republicans have when they attack the president on this wurchb is george w. bush in georgia, the invasion of georgia in 20308.

he didn't have an answer. the russians are still sitting in georgia and bob gates is now predicting the russians are going to stay in crimea, as well. it's a big challenge, but i don't see the republicans coming up with any alternatives and that's what the liberal press are focusing on. >> do you see this as the default setting of the media because this is complicated? look, there's a whole history of different countries and factions controlling crimea going back centuries. but the easier thing to do is put a couple people in the studio and saying, so, it's their fault, it's not their fault? >> absolutely, that's the easy story to do. and it's only when troops actually move into a country that you have to send your own reporters to find out what's going on. if the look at the european press, howie, financial times has been superb on this. the new york review of books had an excellent article on russian nationalism in the ukraine. but the american press has been delved into the ties between russia and the ukraine.

>> i think it is a fair point to ask, though. it's natural to look and say we have a potential war going on, have our leaders handled it well? i was just telling judy, dick cheney was on "face the nation" and he got pressed on how georgia and how they handled it and he stumbled it, well, we had troop movement versus what obama did. i think both ad administrations are having a hard time because no one expected them to move in either place. >> one thing that got a lot of attention this week is resignation on air on the kremlin's own rt. then we'll show you an interview she had is in what she asked what she thought she was doing -- >> personally, i cannot be part of network funded by the russian government that whitewashes the actions of putin. i understood the geopolitical stance of putin. i didn't realize -- i guess i

wasn't aware of how much of his views would actually be pushed in the news cast. >> this is absolutely ridiculous. i'm sorry, you're working for russia today, which is owned by the government. this is a great resume reel for her if that's what she's trying to accomplish, although i wouldn't hire her. if she's going to go renegade like that on television instead of airing her complaints in private first, she'll do it again. >> rt says it was a self-promotional stunt. she gave up her job. why could it not be seen as an act of conscious? >> it could be seen that way. this woman wants another job. she is going to do what she's going to do. there was a great example in the daily beast, a fabulous shoe leather reporting. a reporter went, stood outside russia today and asked people coming out of russia today whether or not what they thought about things and then the ukraine protests, came by and he was talking to them about what

happened. rt is right near the white house. we learned something from that. >> i'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. you may think up to a certain point you can live with a line. but she finally did this t right thing. she stood up, unlike abby martin who criticized what russia did in the ukraine and was continuing to work there. by the way, it's tough out there to get a job and i think she had to think about that. >> and she also -- i saw her plea right after it was done on youtube, she made a very impassioned speech about her family being hungarian-american and her grandparents came over because of the soviet-hungary movement. i was moved by it. i think she was naive as hell to suggest -- >> working from the inside? that's not going to happen. >> i think sometimes you have to

take a stand on principal. and even though she will not change the world and she will not change rt, it mattered to me personally that she did that, even though i think she was a fool to have worked there in the first place. >> you all remember during the 2012 campaign that mitt romney was widely dispoli policmissed by many in the media for saying russia was the number one geopolitical foe of america. president obama made fun of it. your former newspaper, judy, "new york times" editorialal page, romney's comments displayed a shocking lack of knowledge and national -- krach politics, reckless and unworthy of a major prtal contender. maybe the media were wrong? we were in full reset flowering. and that was then -- >> referring to the restarting of an administration? >> exactly. and by the way, the embarrassment of being told that they had mistranslated the

russian word for reset. but nevertheless, people told they were being given the benefit of the doubt. now it's very hard to make that case. nobody does. >> you really didn't expect russian troops to get into ukraine. didn't that reflect the sort of d.c. foreign policy establishment consensus? it's on not just democrat, but some republicans, as well? >> another way of saying d.c. established foreign policy is called the expert on the issues. who else -- i'm sorry, but i'm not going to go to a regular guy in iowa to find out whether the russians are going to invade crimea. and the experts didn't think this was going to happen. >> it wasn't just the experts, john. it was air anna huffington, it was -- >> keep going.r anna huffington was -- >> keep going.i anna huffington was -- >> keep going.anna huffington, was -- >> keep going. it was lawrence o'donnell, rachel maddow, it was arianna huffington all coming out and saying the same thing.

are they foreign policy experts? absolutely not. >> but i think he was wrong and even today, he says i didn't say threats, but i said foe and i think china is our long-term threat/foe, geopolitical strategy, whatever you want to call it. >> let me get a break in here. remember, send us a tweet during this hour. we're going to read some of your messages later in the program. when we come back, sayre rare palin, is she more of a politician these days or a pund pundit? and later, bob costas's take on the media culture. >> you have to have an outrage of the day and a villain of the day and even if that person has to by caricatured in order to make the discussion more heated, that's what happens.

sarah palin, take a look at her with apologies to dr. seuss. >> i do not like reporters smug replies when i complain about their lies. >> is it a smart strategy when you need the media to get your message out? >> it's the tried and true sarah palin blame the media strategy. we heard a lot of it at cpac. yes, i know we are -- but come would be if it didn't work the last time, it's not going to work this time. >> sarah palin is a fox news contributor. was she there as a pundit or somebody who might want to run for president if nobody else suitable does?

>> i think she has aspirations to go somewhere. maybe it's like hillary in the sense she hasn't decided, but she's keeping the oven warm to move in. i do think there's a -- palin is in an interesting position. i think the media discussion take her seriously because most of america doesn't take her seriously. i don't think americans loor fog foreign policy analysis turn to palin. >> but she has a passionate following. >> but that's her dilemma. i don't think she is very serious, other than to a very specific segment of the republican party. >> we used to do that about rand paul, too. i was at cpac. and the three people would got everybody up and down and up and down with applause were sarah palin, ron paul and ted cruise. >> rand paul sflp. >> sorry, rand paul. i didn't mean his data. but those -- to that base, it's red meat. even chris christie came out and

said the media is really bad. surprise, surprise. >> fox news carries palin's speech live yesterday. cnn did not. >> we have to stop letting the media define who we are and what we stand for. >> this is a guy, we all have to remember, at the center of bridgegate who has been pummeled by the left and by the right. it makes sense for him to attack the media. >> so is this a result of his own personal ego? >> no, i think that it is part of what republicans are doing. to judy's point, it might not work. but they are trying to bash not only the media, but they're trying to stay on message with obamacare. >> christie has never been a favorite of conservative wing of the republican party, but now i think there's more sympathy for

him because he's been getting beat up by the press. if msnbc doesn't like him, he must be okay. >> maybe. but he showed up this year, didn't show up last year because he wasn't invited. i read he got one point higher in the poll for showing up, but he's something like 7%. the guy isn't a favorite of the right and the republican party. but, you know, i think it's of his own doing. even the republican governors that he visited those states in the last few months, the governors didn't want to see him. >> there was all this media bashing at cpac, but it's the media that have turned this into a major event, have taken this conference and given it all this coverage. >> and the message that i've seen coming out of cpac is the continuing divisions within the republican party. that's going to be the message, more than whether or not the press is popular with these candidates. >> i suspect you are right. judy miller, john, thanks for joining us.

this is a fox buzz alert. checkbook journalism is back. this time in the oscar pistorius murder trial. he just happened to land an interview this week with the mother of reva steamcamp. this after nbc agreed to pay sate steencamp's family. nbz says the family was paid a modest feet. whatever the amount, paying foreinterviews is bad bus. in that case, it stinks. up next, bob kos tas says his critics were wrong to paint him as an apoll giz gist for vladimir putin. he has plenty to say about the media in just a moment. @w@wowowg

bob costas is one of the most recognizable names in sports casting. he covered a media storm with his take on va lead mreer putin. why does he keep stirring things up with his comments? we sat down for a conversation in new york. >> bob costass, welcome. >> thank you. >> you have a knack for hitting hot button issues. and you have become a lightning rod for many conservatives, including here at fox -- >> yes. >> -- who seem to feel that you are way out there on the left. >> i would be disingenious if i said generally speaking i don't lean somewhat left of center. i'll use an imprecise example, though, that might be relatable to the fox audience. so the extent that i am liberal, i'm like a juan williams liberal who will call out the excesses and contradictions of the

extreme left. to the extent that i am conservative, i'm like a bernie goldberg conservative. there are certain issues which i would getaway with him. on the other hand, the know nothing part of the spectrum where people just reflexively defend a phil robertson type person, i'm not in that camp and never have been in that camp. >> you're not a duck dynasty fan? >> no. i think a lot of people that watch fox would be surprised at how much rich lowery or i read or on and on and how often a nod an agreement and how much i respect those voices. i don't respect the heat over light voices which can be found in some corners of fox news and can be found on the radio, as well. >> let's talk about sochi. on opening night, many people are aware that you had some things to say about va lead mere putin. >> yes. just in the past year, putin brokered a deal to allow syria to avoid a u.s. military strike by giving up its chemical

weapons. it helped bring iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear intentions. >> you were pounded by conservative xhem taters. few would portray him as a peacemaker. >> yes. >> costas apparently has a gigantic man crush on va lood lad mere. i know this was a set up piece, but they were your words. >> yes. >> criticism, fair or unfair? unfair, because out of context. all it was was a set up to a discussion in which he would immediately be skriebd as a -- and would immediately be explained by experts on russian history and present day politics, including the pulitzer prize winner, david remnick, that a, identities he's an auto accurate, b, ee doesn't care what we in the west thing, c, he has his own agenda, that includes where necessary surprising his own people and possibly suppressing his own muscles.

we foreshadowed what happened in ukraine and -- >> but you know we live in a sound bite culture and you provided the sound bite. interestingly, the other piece of information was you were just pounding if nbc corporate line. >> yeah. >> eric boling on fox said you were reading something by the political arm in nbc and it wasn't your words and -- >> this is most important to me. to make it clear about my colleagues at nbc. nbc sports is not an extension of msnbc, no water what anyone may think about msnbc. through the years, i think the administration and many of the broadcasters at nbc would be more conservative or moderate than liberal. there is no corporate and was no corporate marching orders. and if, in fact, they were beholden to putin, afraid, as they put it, putin's prisoner for a couple of weeks, they never would have said, had david

remnick say or allowed me to say either in direct statements or in direct questions any of the things, let alone the dozens of things which we said or asked about vladimir putin's russia. back to the set up piece. this is a cut and paste kind of thing. people looking to be outraged, looking for something that they can extrapolate incorrect assumptions from. if they cared about fairness and facts, they would have taken a look at all the things that i said in prime time, all of which were then posted on nbcolympics.com, any one of two of which would have completely given the lie to that characterization because nobody who felt that way about putin would then turn around and say this is a government and this is a regime which etcetera, etcetera, you know what i said. >> let me stick with this idea that the outrage is in your view manufactured. if that's the case, if i've seen

seen other examples of it involving lots of subjects and people beyond you. if xhen taters are looking to be outraged, to point fingers, and if that is true on -- >> and to a takenny strand and ignore the mountain of evidence on the contrary to disprove it. >> and if that is true, isn't it also true of many commentators at msnbc? >> yes, i believe it is. bernie goldberg made an excellent point to this without referring to fox or msnbc. he referred to why will idea logical media. when you have idealogical media on either side of the discussion, but a lot of it runs on heat rather than light. and you have to have an outrage of the day and a villain of the day. even if that person has to be characteristic ka temperature

order to make that discussion more heated, that's what happened. >> towards the end of the olympics, you took on the russian regimes. >> in many ways, theirs is still a government which imprisons dissonance, is hostile to gay rights, sponsors gay rights in syria and that's just the way it is. >> for all of the afacts on you during the opening remarks, i saw very little coverage of what you said towards the end of the olympics. why is that? >> well, actually, that was covered in a number of places. it just wasn't covered here. it wasn't covered here. because it would be -- >> by here, you mean on fox? >> yeah. or places where the general tone is akin to the general tone at fox. because there's no payoff in th that. it doesn't feed the narrative. there were two dozen things at least that would have given the

lie to that characterization. but that was inconvenient. so here is the thing which we can misrepresent which was said in a mere set up piece. here are all the things he said, his direct questions, sometimes contentious with the president of the ioc or you can say what you want about where david remnic and the lean, read what he's posted on the new yorkers website just this past week. >> after the turning nation of the ukraine? >> absolutely. we laid out the back drop against which these olympics were taking place. and forgive me for taking your time here, but i want to make it clear about my colleagues at nbc sports. they did not run scared from vladimir putin. they said, mark lazarus who runs nbc sports and all my colleagues not only did a beautiful job of presenting the olympics as sports, but where appropriate

and judiciously, they did what we said we would do, which was frame the issues against which this unique olympics took place -- >> and then come -- >> and cover the games, but if something came up, like when members of pussy riot ran into difficulties, we noted it right away. >> for costas after the break, where he went wrong in the gun debate and whether he should be using sports casts as a political soap box.

latest in the investigation into those on board with stolen passports. keep it right here on fox. more now of my conversation with nbc's bob costas as we move on to such sensitive subjects as gun control. >> this goes beyond the olympics. you waded into the controversy over the washington redskins names. you said it's an insult, a slur no matter how the present benign intent. >> yes. >> why insert yourself into that

controversy? >> it overlaps politics. but it's a football issue. washington was playing dallas on our air that night. i was asked by nbc -- i didn't just walk in there and go, i'm going to do this. it doesn't work that way. many conservatives, tony dungy, civil musnic, a sports writer who often writes about issues and is perceived as conservative, tom cole, a long list happened to agree with me on this. and i made a decision between political correctness which is generally stupid and gets in the way of a reasonable conversation. i went out of my way in the first half of it to say this isn't political correctness, unless some of the requiredals were snuting.

perhaps your most explosive controversy was when you weighed into the nfl's gun policy. and you had commentary and again you were incuesed of injecting politics into halftime. fox said you were a hypocritical buffoon because you're in new york and you're surrounded by armed guards and you're in safety. >> well, greg was accurate if you consider 180 degrees from the truth to be accurate. i have never had a personal bodyguard a single day in my life. there are security people at nfl games that the nfl employs. there is always massive security at an olympics and there there is nbc security. i have never had personal security armed or otherwise in new york, st. louis or any place i've lived a single day of my life. >> did you also fumble that commentary because -- and you and i talked about this before. you chose to quote the words of

columnists instead of saying, i, bob costas, believe we need some sort of sensible move towards -- in what you described as a gun culture in the nfl league. >> as i said with you and lawrence o'donnell, bill o'reiley, i could have done a better job. part of the blame of this is on me. i don't regret taking on the issue, but i wasn't as effective and clear as i generally at this point think i am. i'm a pretty good broadcaster and generally i get my point across as i intended. >> you've been doing a while. >> yeah. in this case, i didn't have enough time and i bit off more than i could chew. there's a big difference between 50 seconds and two minutes where you can lay things out. in retrospect, and i said this at the time, here is what i wish i had said. if we want to get some perspective on this, we should

have a conversation that will condition and enshoe? what about the here and now, effects on impulse control and aggression, especially when mixed with performance enhancing drugs or alcohol, and three, athletes and guns? and i should have said not talking here about anyone's responsible legal exercise of their legitimate second amendment rights, but i am talking about a gun culture which pervades sports. it was that gun culture in the nfl that i was talking about. it was misunderstood as something hostile to the second amendment or a gun control speech. but part of that was on me. i didn't realize how truly sensitive and volatile the issue was. and irved have taken further

pains. still ahead on media buzz, ellen degeneres has highlighted a new form of advertising. but first, the struggle at the sochi olympics. g

for my money, the most riveting development in sochi was your battle against pink eye. how frustrating was that? >> you know, it was frustrating because my colleagues worked so hard. some of them worked 18, 20-hour days and i worked with a lot of them for decades and they looked forward to this. and in many cases, they propped me up. you know, i get credit for work that is 90% the work of a producer. you know? i may contribute something to it. i'm carrying the ball for them. and for five or six days, i wasn't able to. i hung in as long as i could. if i had a bad back or a stomachache, i could have kept on going. but not only could people see it, but it goes to where my vision was so blurry and -- >> but you were like a skier who trains for four years before the big event. i know you didn't want to be sidelined. >> yeah. but this was any 11th olympics. if it was my first or second, personally i might have done more.

there would be at least one more that i will do. so it's just an odd chapter in a big story. >> everyone has been asking me, how did his eyes look? they were fine. >> howellen's endlessly tweeted oscar photo is part of a booming business.

>> a samsung has plenty of company when it comes to product placement or what is now called native advertising and lots of

major media companies are in great demand for the cash. >> it's fascinating samsung spent $20 million on real ads for that broadcast. then it turns out samsung officials were there helping them use the iphone, so this was sort of sparked. >> of course, that's what people want. they want things that are subtle. you see it in movies for a long time. i think people don't mind it as long as they know what's happening. i don't think people realized what happened with samsung. i think they understood it once samsung kept coming up, and up all over again. >> this whole area was what's called native advertising. you are paying to have your story. >> everybody is doing it, the washington post, aol, huffingtop post. >> let's put up on the screen a

shot of mashable sites. we will give you an whl of what we are talking about. these are all several stories, the within we have in red presented by esurance that gets them going is in the style on the page. >> you can look over to the right of that, you see clear samsung ad. you know that right there is an ad. it says it. you have to look right here when it says presented by esurance. a lot of people would dplans over that. because it's says mashable in the title, you think it's mashable content. >> right. one said 98.8% of all banner ads are ignored, people don't look at them, except sometimes by mistake. >> those are display ads that go across the top. >> right. >> i have done that, too. my mouse sort of goes over it. com score says 46% of display

advertising people don't even click on, so how are you learning nations which hire editors and reporters going to get additional revenue? >> well, i understand we need the revenue, let's face it. this is designed to be a little bit deceptive to make you think that the real store you click on, now the media company, i understand they need cash and somebody has to pay for that recording. they are assigning teams to help samsung, to help the corporation design stories to advertise. >> howie, digital advertising does not pay the bills. how do you expect to get news content unless you come up with some sort of unique way. the problem i have is that it has to be clearly 39ated. you have to know. it could have a red box around it but it doesn't. you have to foe that content is not editorial content. >> having a red box defeats the purpose t. idea is to make you think that, hey, this is another interesting story. you seem comfortable with it. >> no, i'm not comfortable with

it. but it needs to be actually, you know, highlighted. i understand from working at a major corporation that owned a lot of newspapers, the money just isn't there anymore. so how do you pay for the content? you have to figure it out. i'd love to continue the discussion on twitter. still to him co, from smoking crack to cracking jokes, how rob ford has become fodder for the likes of jimmy kimmel.

>> here are a few of your top tweets, bob costas is a sportscaster, when did he get a sense of importance to lecture us on the social and political ills of the world. how would bob cost is thats characterize what rachel maddow or chris matthews do on msync? one says, disjointed, mediocrer. not enough context to last two u.s. administrations. cpac, your guests are way off pace with palin. no longer needed to win and election. >> at cpac and across the country, people respect sarah palin, believe it or not for the

gop who are inside the beltway for what she stands for. >> you have a passionate following. >> finally, will american television get tired of the crack smoking mayor, rob ford did the funny bits, then he got a little tough love. >> if you are an alcoholic, which, you know, listen, if you are drinking enough that you can try crack in your 40s and you don't remember it, maybe that's something that you might want to think about like talking to somebody. >> i wasn't elected to be perfect, jimmy. i was elected to clean up the mess i inherited. that's exactly what i had done. >> nice message, jimmy. i don't think the mayor will be checking into rehab any time soon. aren't media people enabling this troubled man by treating him as a celebrity? >> of course, that's what happens. look at marion barry when he was the mayor of d.c. and had a crack smoking problem. he became the brunt of jokes non-stop. what's different about this is this is a guy who is from canada and we're spending all of this media time on him, in part,

because it's funny. >> we made him the most famous politician in canadian history. i think there is a serious side of this story. he seems out of control as a mayor, yet he's a late-night fixture. >> here's a guy walking into fire hydrants and rambling at some chicken place and we just keep taking it. you know, i think in small doses, it's okay. it's the desert part of the middle east. he is from canada. why are we doing this? >> irresistible. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." check us out on our facebook page. we continue on our new home page. we are back here next sunday at 11:00 eastern with the >> it's monday march the 10th as fear and grief enters day three searching for an airliner.

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